The theatre and Barcelona are the protagonists of this exhibition. The time it passes through shows how the itinerary of the theatrical place in Barcelona moves in parallel with the history of the city. The views that it opens highlight an urban, architectural heritage and a scene that looks, represents like the city. City, architecture, scenic space and society are related in the exhibition.

Theatres, theatre and Barcelona are the protagonists of this exhibition. The time it passes through shows how the itinerary of the theatrical place in Barcelona moves in parallel with the history of the city. In this way, the role that the performing arts play in intuiting, and even promoting, urban growth and transformations is discovered. A sequence of maps outlines this temporal journey in periods within which a conjunction occurs between theatrical activity and the city.

From La Rambla to Passeig de Gràcia, and from this to Avinguda del Paral·lel and the towns of the Pla de Barcelona, time becomes space. The cartography that accompanies the route of the exhibition shows how the living theatre system of contemporary Barcelona is made up of a succession of deposits, places where the theatre was splendidly established during an era and where, although it has gradually abandoned them, it still survives. And from new places, which end up spreading the performing arts throughout the city. A story of the theatre's encounters and disagreements with the city will tell this exhibition.

The spatio-temporal reason for reading this script does not prevent other more conceptual itineraries focusing, for example, on the relationship between large halls and alternative spaces, from the hall and alcove theatres in the 17th and 18th centuries to contemporary small-format theatres. That the social and artistic role of the theatres of the Athenaeums emerge, from their origin to the cases of the Teatre Lliure in the Cooperativa La Lleialtat in Gràcia, the Antic Teatre in the Círculo Obrero San José or the Sala Beckett in the Cooperativa Pau i Justícia in Poblenou. That they exhibit the scenic use of found spaces, from the Llotja de Mar when the wedding of Carlos III of Austria, in the 18th century, and the churches, in the middle of the 19th century, with the expropriation of Mendizábal, to the current space of La Perla 29, in the former Hospital de la Santa Creu. And, even, reveal the role of fires in the movements of the theatrical map of the city.

The views promoted by this exhibition highlight an urban heritage: that of the place of the theater in Barcelona, an architectural heritage and put the eye on a scene that also does not stop looking at and representing the city. The theater has been and still is a meeting place for citizens. City, architecture, scenic space and society are related in the exhibition, curated by Antoni Ramon Graells and Ivan Alcázar Serrat.